SPOTLIGHT

Remarks by Izumi Nakamitsu at the 2017 Moscow Nonproliferation conference: Nuclear Energy, Disarmament, and Non-proliferation

High Representative’s address to Non-proliferation Studies students in Moscow

“Disarmament in Geneva” spotlighted on UN Open Day

Remarks by HR Nakamitsu at the First Committee high level exchange on the current state of affairs in the field of arms control and disarmament

Remarks by HR Nakamitsu on the First Committee resolutions and the Secretary-General’s reports

Table: SG reports

Opening remarks by HR Nakamitsu at UNIDIR Annual Cyber Stability Conference – ICTs in the context of international peace and security

SG’s statement via Spokesman on International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons receiving Nobel Peace Prize

HR Nakamitsu Media Stakeout on ICAN winning the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize – in English and Japanese

HR Nakamitsu also issues statement

DISARMAMENT IN THE NEWS

Imaging drones to spot signs of explosive chemicals leaking from landmines

UNFOLD ZERO interviews UN General Assembly President

Project to connect American youth with Atomic Bomb survivors (Hibakusha) winding down

japantimes.co.jp

Showing Hiroshima’s Reality

FEATURED CONTENT

First Committee of the 72nd Session of the General Assembly

2017 Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

Website for the UN Conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons

Disarmament Education

UNODA UPDATE

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South-East Asian Workshop on Global Challenges to Successful Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004), and Regional Efforts to Address Them

Nuclear Disarmament Verification

Verified Declarations of Fissile Material Stocks

From Vision to Measurable Change on the Ground: Mine Action and Sustainable Development Goals:

“Disarmament in Geneva” spotlighted on UN Open Day

ANNOUNCEMENTS

First Committee side event calendar is now available

Information for participants: Tenth Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty New York, 20 September 2017

Invitation to NGOs to register by 15 September 2017: Tenth Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

For NGOs: UN General Assembly High-level Plenary Meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

EVENTS

September 28 - November 2, 2017

General Assembly, First Committee, Seventy-second session

New York

October 23 - 25, 2017

CTBTO: Working Group A, 52nd session

Vienna

November 6 - 10, 2017

Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, 7th session

Vienna, Austria

November 6 - 8, 2017

Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization Preparatory Commission, 49th session

Vienna, Austria

November 13 - 15, 2017

CTBTO: Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization Preparatory Commission, 49th session

Vienna

November 20 - 22, 2017

Board of Governors: Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee

Vienna, Austria

November 23 - 24, 2017

IAEA Board of Governors

Vienna, Austria

December 4 - 8, 2017

Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)

Geneva

December 18 - 22, 2017

Sixteenth Meeting of States Parties to the Anti Personnel Land Mine Convention

Vienna

March 19 - 23, 2018

Preparatory Committee for the Conference to Review Progress Made in the Implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects

New York, USA